{"id":316,"date":"2013-02-19T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/borntoreform\/?p=316"},"modified":"2013-02-18T22:52:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T04:52:45","slug":"a-charles-spurgeon-prayer-for-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/borntoreform\/2013\/02\/a-charles-spurgeon-prayer-for-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"A Charles Spurgeon prayer for lent."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Lord Jesus,\u00a0take from us now\u00a0everything that would hinder the closest communion with God.\u00a0Any wish or desire that might hamper us in prayer\u00a0remove, we pray you.\u00a0Any memory of either sorrow or care\u00a0that might hinder the fixing of our affection wholly on our God,\u00a0take it away now.\u00a0What have we to do with idols anymore?\u00a0You have seen and observed us.\u00a0You know where the difficulty lies.\u00a0Help us against it,\u00a0and may we now come boldly,\u00a0not in the holy place alone,\u00a0but in the holiest of all,\u00a0where we should not dare to come\u00a0if our great Lord had not torn the veil,\u00a0sprinkled the mercy seat with his own blood,\u00a0and asked us to enter.<\/p>\n<p><em>Charles Spurgeon<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Jesus,\u00a0take from us now\u00a0everything that would hinder the closest communion with God.\u00a0Any wish or desire that might hamper us in prayer\u00a0remove, we pray you.\u00a0Any memory of either sorrow or care\u00a0that might hinder the fixing of our affection wholly on our God,\u00a0take it away now.\u00a0What have we to do with idols anymore?\u00a0You have seen and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1333,"featured_media":318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[152,153,143,31],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other","tag-charles","tag-lent","tag-prayer","tag-spurgeon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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